Module Mania

The last piece of the page-styling puzzle is styling modules.  You can set the style for an individual module - even set a special background image just for that module.  It's easy, and the effect can be pretty darn neat.

Dr Dzoe is acquainted with one young lady who has made good use of this technique on her page.  Click on http://www.aimpages.com/rezogrl2000/profile.html and you'll see that rezogrl2000 has set a different background image on almost every module.  Looks neat, doesn't it?

So how did she do it?  Well, it's pretty simple, really.  Just edit your page, position your mouse over a module, and select "Style".  The style box pops up, and you've got all sorts of options.  Set your fonts, set your border, set your background colors!  And all will affect only the module that you're on.

Dr Dzoe's favorite module style setting is the background image.  Just go to that tab, click an image, and hit "Save."  Voila - you're module now has its own background!

Of course, to be really cool you need to upload your own image.  When you've got the background image panel open, click on "Upload image" and you'll be able to upload an image from your desktop. Click on that image and it becomes the background for your module.  That's what rezogrl2000 did on her page, and doesn't it look great?

One warning: you need to be careful about uploading too large an image.  If you've just gotten a new digital camera, chances are that its pictures are awfully big - multi-mega-pixels are great for a lot of things, but they do not make for great background images - only a small part of the image will be visible in the background, and your page load time will be sloooooow from downloading that large image.  Just scale the image down using your favorite picture editor.  (Dr Dzoe is partial to Photoshop, but there's plenty of good choices out there.)

And oh - Dr Dzoe uses a background image on one of the modules on his page as well.  Look around and see if you can guess which one it is - maybe you can even find the secret message...

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